
April 30, 2025
The U.S. Is No Longer the Leader of the West
Trump’s second term has dismantled the idea of the U.S. as the leader of the West and instead it’s almost “every nation for itself”, says Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, Jim Townsend.
Watch the full interview on Times Radio.
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